[QUOTE=asparaguss;386725]It's just hilarious how she keeps milking the press with rumours of a "comeback" that is never, and was never, going to happen.

I suppose what I don't understand is why people think it's either desirable or possible. When skaters' careers are pronuonced over at 21, why would a much older skater be seen as having anything like a competitive chance?

That article is not up to date. On the broadcast Michelle said and I am quoting here "I have all of my triples back"

I'm sorry, where was this recent competition where Michelle completed 5 triples? What's that? Oh, Michelle only said she has her triples back.

Well, that's all the proof I need. Heck, they should just give her the gold medal, if she says her skating is at that level.

Okay, there wasn't a competition. Fine. So where was the video footage of Michelle at the rink completing 5 triples? There isn't any?

I'm sure Meissner, etc. can occasionally complete each of the 5 triples if she keeps trying in a pressure-free practice rink. That doesn't mean she can do all 5 consistently in a single program. At a competition.

But hey, if Michelle says she can do all this, that's just peachy. It means she can forever keep up the illusion for her worshippers that she could just sweep in and get a gold any old time she wants, and never actually prove anything on the ice.

It's a bit like how Queen Elizabeth I's portrait painters always painted their subject as 16ish and young, no matter how old and haggard she grew in real life.

I'm sorry, where was this recent competition where Michelle completed 5 triples? What's that? Oh, Michelle only said she has her triples back.

Well, that's all the proof I need. Heck, they should just give her the gold medal, if she says her skating is at that level.

Okay, there wasn't a competition. Fine. So where was the video footage of Michelle at the rink completing 5 triples? There isn't any?

I'm sure Meissner, etc. can occasionally complete each of the 5 triples if she keeps trying in a pressure-free practice rink. That doesn't mean she can do all 5 consistently in a single program. At a competition.

But hey, if Michelle says she can do all this, that's just peachy. It means she can forever keep up the illusion for her worshippers that she could just sweep in and get a gold any old time she wants, and never actually prove anything on the ice.

It's a bit like how Queen Elizabeth I's portrait painters always painted their subject as 16ish and young, no matter how old and haggard she grew in real life.

Michelle says that she has been training off-ice and also doing some on-ice training, which she is taking very seriously. About triple jumps, she says, "I have got my triples out."

She says that as of now she is training to "get into shape," and will not make any decision about returning to skating until later.

What I interpret this to mean is that she has taken her triples out of the clothes closet, dusted them off, and is now trying them on to see if they still fit or not.

It's a bit like how Queen Elizabeth I's portrait painters always painted their subject as 16ish and young, no matter how old and haggard she grew in real life.

Actually, I think there were a couple of portrait painters who did depict the Queen as old and decrepid. Sadly, their work has not survived, but their severed heads can be found buried under the floor at Westminster Abby.

Actually, I think there were a couple of portrait painters who did depict the Queen as old and decrepid. Sadly, their work has not survived, but their severed heads can be found buried under the floor at Westminster Abby.